Gardening

Back in March we planted the beginnings of our garden in the garden spot we had worked so hard to create last year.  Around Mother's Day we finished planting, adding tomato plants, a zucchini and yellow squash plant (one each), two cucumbers, some herbs, and several rows of green beans.  When we left for our trip to Lafayette and Chicago, we programmed the sprinklers and left our plants, hoping everything would survive.

We were astonished upon our return to find our plants all huge and thriving.  There seemed to have been an explosion of growth.  Everything looks fantastic.  Our tomatoes are waist high, we've harvested zucchini and yellow squash, the tomato plants have tomatoes and blossoms all over them, the herbs are huge, and the lettuces are going to seed because they are so abundant we can't eat them fast enough.  We have tried to garden in grow boxes and pots with very little success, so to have everything doing so beautifully well is a pleasure, a really delicious pleasure.

Zucchini, tomatoes above with

cucumbers, herbs, leafy greens, beans, peas, and carrots below.

Hooray for green growing things!

Today's haul:

lettuce, zucchini and squash, and peas (to shell).

I could have harvested five times that much lettuce, but we won't eat that much at dinner.